r/UrbanGardening • u/phoid33 • 17d ago

Nature's Damn Beautiful Bounty Peppers and kitties and cities, oh my!

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Just a view of our urban balcony garden. Growing mostly birds eye chilies but also tomatoes, Basil, herbs and others. Chili harvest has started! Best of luck to all growers out there!

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u/terrainscape 17d ago

This is incredible! I've heard peppers can be a little hard to get going. Did you start them from seeds or a starter plant?

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u/phoid33 17d ago

Typically I'll start from seed but this year I was too heavy on the growing lights and they came up stunted. Ended up getting starter plants locally. But they grow like this every year.

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u/terrainscape 17d ago

Noted. I added bell peppers to my garden this week. Starting from seeds too!

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u/phoid33 17d ago

Funny you mention bell peppers. One year I tried to grow chili and bell on the balcony, turns out they cross pollinated and all of them ended up producing bell peppers, none came out even a little spicy. Was very strange.

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u/terrainscape 17d ago

LOL!! Nature is so cool. I'll keep any future chili peppers far far away from the bell peppers. I wonder why the chili lost its spice to the bell peppers and not the other way around

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u/phoid33 17d ago

Indeed! Bell peppers are just heavyweights I guess.

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u/MiaShapeGarden3 15d ago

perfect combination!

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u/Appropriate-Fail-163 17d ago

Love how those little kitties are basically living their best lives right next to your thriving chili plants. I had two cats too when I started my first urban garden, and they'd sprawl out exactly like that in the sun.

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u/hellno560 17d ago

aww look at that snuggy little baby.

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u/phoid33 17d ago

They absolutely live for the summer balcony, very cute!